Letter Love

So, I'm taking Joanne Sharpe's Letter Love 101 online course that started the first of this month. I'm truly enjoying the lettering exercises, and trying out some new materials. Here are some pics from the first few exercises...

I've been away....

Well, last year finished off fairly uneventfully, and art-making-wise, very unproductively. In Novemeber I found myself making several outside commitments that kept taking me away from the process of starting my business up and doing any kind of art. I even put journaling on the back burner. First there were a couple of family things I needed to take care, then, the holidays, then vacation...and now I've been helping an organization I volunteer with plan a major annual event that's had me tied up most days.
I came to the conclusion that I had to get back to at least making time for art a couple of hours a day, and start drawing firmer boundaries for my time and work, and quit dedicating myself to any negative things that have been taking up my time and energy. I started reading Julia Cameron's "The Sound of Paper", which I love, and also "The Artist's Way". Slowly, I've started back into doing feeds my soul and makes me happy...only I've found that after this past creative break I haven't quite figured out where to start. I decided to take Joanne Sharpe's "Letter Love 101" and Jane Davenport's "Draw Happy".
In the next few weeks I'll be posting the projects I've been working on in the courses and such. Yay for making stuff!